Basic Photography and Camera Operation Test

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1. If you left your phone number for the free phone consultation with Sam about how you may improve your photography, what's the best time for Sam to call you?

2. In terms of the raw material a crafts-person works with: 1. A potter works with clay. 2. A chef works with food. 3. A carpenter works with wood. 4. A photographer works with? (pick one)

A camera

A Lens

Light

A subject (person, landscap, etc)

3. The characteristic of light that describes the brightness of light is?

Color

Intensity

Direction

Exposure

4. What is light sensitive material?

Any material that records light

Light sources

A camera

5. What focuses light onto light sensitive material ?

A camera

A lens

A Viewfnder

6. Which focal length describes the widest angle of view?

28mm

f-4

50mm

f-16

7. What is an aperture?

An opening in the camera that can be made bigger or smaller.

An opening in the lens that can be made bigger or smaller.

The length of time the lens stays open.

8. Aperture is also known as?

Focal length

f-stop

Viewfinder

9. What is exposure?

The brightness/intensity of light.

Aperture (f-stop)

A recording of light.

Shutter Speed

ISO

10. In terms of your camera equipment and functions, what controls exposure only?

ISO

Aperture (f-stop)

Shutter speed

The combination of ISO and aperture

The combination of aperture and shutter speed

The combination of ISO, aperture and shutter speed

The combination of ISO and shutter speed

11. Which aperture provides the most exposure?

f-11

f-4

f-8

Aperture does not provide exposure.

12. Which ISO provides the most exposure?

400

ISO does not provide exposure.

800

1600

13. Which shutter speed provides the most exposure?

1/8 second

1/60th second

Shutter speed does not provide exposure.

14. An increase in exposure will?

Make a picture darker

Make a picture brighter

15. A one stop decrease in exposure from f-11 is?

f-8

f-5.6

f-22

None of the provided answers.

What's a stop?

16. A one stop increase in exposure from 1/250 second is?

1/500 second.

1/125 second.

1/60 second.

None of the provided answers.

What's a stop?

17. ISO is?

Exposure

Light sensitivity

Noise

Grain

18. A decrease in the ISO number will?

Make a picture darker.

Make a picture brighter.

19. A one stop increase in light sensitivity from ISO 200 is?

100

400

None of the provided answers.

What's a stop?

20. Metering is?

Aperture and shutter speed.

Making a photograph lighter or darker.

The measurment of the intensity of ight.

The brightness/intensity of light.

21. Which metering pattern/metering mode does not use the entire camera viewfinder/frame and offers the smallest area of influence?

Center Weighted

Multi-pattern/Matrix/Evaluative

Spot

Partial

22. Which aperture provides the most/deepest depth of field?

What's depth of field?

What's aperture?

f-8

f-16

Aperture doesn't control depth of field.

23. How does distance focused control depth of field?

The farther the distance focused the more/deeper depth of field

Distance focused doesn't control depth of field.

The farther the distance focused the less/shallower depth of field

24. Which shutter speed will more likely blur motion in a photograph?

1/60th second

1/125 second

1/15th second

Shutter speed doesn't control the stopping or blurrng of motion.

25. Assuming a lens/camera without vibration reduction/image stabilization, If using an 28mm focal length lens, which shutter speed will cause camera shake/picture blurriness due to hand-holding the camera while making an exposure?

1/30 second

1/60th second

1/15th second

None of the provided answers.

What's vibration reduction/image stabilization?

26. Which ISO setting will result in the least amount of noise?

ISO 200

ISO 100

ISO does not control noise.

27. When acquiring a standard exposure through metering, whatever was influencing your meter will appear as a?

A good exposure.

A darker than average tonality.

An average (medium) tonality.

A brighter than average tonality.

What's tonality?

None of the provided answers.

28. The brightness/intensity of the pop-up flash on your camera can usually be controlled with a setting on your camera.

True

False

29. In order for flash to be effective, not to bright or too dark, the flash to subject distance must be considered as well as ISO and aperture.

True

False

30. White balance settings provide a way to control how the color of a transmitting light source, (daylight, light bulbs, etc.), and the color of the things that the transmitting light source effect appear in a photograph.

True

False

31. Which of these image/file types are not processed, not compressed and will have the largest pixel dimensions?

JPEG/JPG

RAW

TIF/TIFF

32. Which of these image/file types are proprietary and must be converted to a universally usable image/file type before being printed.

JPEG/JPG

RAW

TIF/TIFF

33. The higher the image compression the lower the quality of the image.

True

False

34. The lower the image compression the larger the file size of the photograph in terms of megabytes.

True

False

35. In terms of image resolution, megapixels describes the number of pixels on a digital sensor and is calculated by multiplying the number of pixels along the length of the sensor by the number of pixels along the height of the sensor.

True

False

36. The higher the megapixel value the lower the resolution.

True

False

37. As image/picture resolution increases, so does the possible maximum size image you can produce.

True

False

- Basic Photography and Camera Operation Test

- June 7, 2020

You'll have 15 minutes to take the test.

Make sure to enter:

Your name

Your email address

Your Phone number - OPTIONAL - (Leave your phone number only if you'd like a free phone consultation with Sam about how you may improve your photography. )

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Leave any comments or questions about the test in the "Leave a Reply" area at the bottom of the page.

Thank you for the quiz. I appreciate knowing what I could study to increase my knowledge. I found that a few items I have the practical understanding, but not the written. Knowing this will allows me to improve the written knowledge so that I may speak with increased accuracy.

Dear Sam,
Debby Shipler recommended I take your course, and I just signed for one starting in April.
I would really appreciate your feedback on this, and look forward to learning from you.
Sarel Kromer

Please change the answer to #1 to the first option – I was about to do that when I timed out of the test.

We spoke on the phone about the Friday Intermediate daytime class. I am the one who has taken 2 of your short classes – one on exposure, and one on white balance. I am planning on registering for the class. I would appreciate it if you would contact me regarding the results of the test.

I’ve been shooting for nearly 10-years on and off and love capturing weddings and events, with a dash of portraits. I am most interested in better manipulating studio light and working on my composition. Hopefully composition and enhancing my eye are skills you can help me with.

My last formal photography instruction was many years ago in college, well before digital was commonly available — a solid b&w photo/darkroom class taught by a seasoned pro. I was also trained as a filmmaker, so I understand exposure and composition, and my work isn’t too bad… simply would like it to be better. I scored a little shy of your requisite 80% on the test, mainly on the technical terminology and digital q’s, but I believe I would keep up in your Intermediate class — the Basics class is TOO basic. Can I register for the Intermediate class, or would you Ike me to study some other sources in order to get the “fuzzy” areas a bit clearer?

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